Changing A Theme's Visual Style My Style And Shell Style
Feb 27, 2005
I found a nice theme which doesn't give the usual .theme file which you load in the Display control panel. What it does give you though, is a Visual style file of extension .msstyle, and a shell style file of name shellstyle.dll. Upon further investigation, I have been able to find similar files under /windows/resources/themes/. I suppose that they are used to actually store the information needed by the .theme file. Now, with the background info laid out, would anyone know how to either:Create a new theme that utilizes the info provided by the two files shown or modify an existing style (such as Luna aka Windows XP standard?
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Feb 23, 2009
I can't change visual style, theme or wallpaper. Here some photos : How looks themes tab http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/kilertas/1.jpg
when choose windows xp theme http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/kilertas/2.jpg
when choose windows classic theme http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/kilertas/3.jpg
can't change wallpaper http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/kilertas/4.jpg
how looks visual style tab http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/kilertas/5.jpg
when try to change to windows xp http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/kilertas/6.jpg it says "Can't change visual style, because failed to open file"
i can change visual style to windows classic but when press apply and ok nothing changes.
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